I remember now that when I took off my shawl Monday afternoon I laid it on the bureau for a minute.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A participle may be equivalent not only to a clause describing or determining the substantive modified, as in la parolanta viro , the man who-is-talking , la sendota knabo , the boy who-will-be-sent , but also to an adverbial clause.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

This love of a partner cannot proceed from the relation or connexion betwixt us; in the same manner as I love a brother or countryman.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He stood motionless an instant, listening as it were with his whole body, then staggered back against the nearest tree for support, disorganized hopelessly in mind and spirit.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

Innocent as I had been of any intention to terrify and agitate her, my heart smote me as I looked at the poor, pale, frightened face.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In which saying, mad as it looks, may there not still be found some grain of reason?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Yet I should like you to understand why it is that I have said so much, and, indeed, left nothing unsaid.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

We're in a sorry mess, and it looks black, but, this much I can tell you: you are to be set free in a few days, unharmed.
— from Truxton King: A Story of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

[ to Léon] You have spoken of friendship, of pity, and of sympathy, but if it were any of these reasons you could tell me so; meanwhile, as I look at you two, I feel that here is some unspoken reason, some mystery which appalls me.
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant